Film

Bereiding van gele koorts vaccin in het Instituut voor Tropische Hygiëne

Polygoon-Profilti (producent)

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In the Institute for Tropical Hygiene in Amsterdam, a vaccine is made against yellow fever. Archive footage of poor hygiene in the former Dutch East Indies and the West is preceded by shots of the production of the vaccine and, finally, old footage from the overseas territories. SHOTS: - Dense jungle along the side of a river, filmed from a korjaal; slum in tropical city; open sewer idem; some sick people, one lies in the doorway of a shabby house; drawing and photo of the mosquito that transmits the disease; infirmary in a tropical hospital; indigenous people are vaccinated, somewhere in the jungle, on a village square; - ext. institute; lab assistants work in a laboratory with chicken eggs and all kinds of equipment to produce the vaccine; - a girl is vaccinated by a doctor.

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